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Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventor:

Masaya Okada, Nisshin, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 40/10 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 40/10 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02);
Abstract

A notification control device includes an occupant state identifying unit, a behavior change obtaining unit, and a notification processing unit. The occupant state identifying unit is configured to identify a state of an occupant of the vehicle among a plurality of states. The behavior change obtaining unit is configured to obtain an imminent behavior change of the vehicle during the automated driving. The notification processing unit is configured to cause a notification device to notify the occupant of the imminent behavior change when the imminent behavior change obtained by the behavior change obtaining unit satisfies a notification condition. The notification condition is set for each of the plurality of states. The notification condition for a first distracted state categorized into a distracted group is different from the notification condition for a second distracted state categorized into the distracted group.


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